Tag: Ronald Backer

Billie’s Taxi, Tribute to Edan Hughes, Adobe Dweller Frances Nugent and More

by Ann JapengaDecember 3, 2010

Fans of Cathedral City artist Agnes Pelton have long awaited the book by the City’s first mayor–and a friend to the early artists–Robert Hillery. At last Cathedral City: the Early Years 1925 to 1981 is in print. You can meet…

Randall Tipton Returns to Tahquitz and More

by Ann JapengaOctober 10, 2010

With the desert strangely warm this season, the snakes have awakened early and artists from colder places are busy in the canyons. One such visitor, Randall David Tipton, is a spellbinding landscape painter well-known in Portland and the Northwest–but he…